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Recession-Proof Businesses and Products: Staying Afloat During Economic Downturn

ShipBob

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many ecommerce businesses are rethinking their marketing and sales strategy for the short and long term. I had a customer ask if he could drive to my house in San Diego to get product. Freighting, fulfillment, and logistics. Looking beyond the COVID-19 recession.

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Finding the Optimal California Warehouse Space for Your Products

West Coast and California Logistics

Making California even more sensible, from a distribution perspective, is the fact that most of the Pan-Pacific freight arrives via its ports. For many companies, these combined facts make logistics strategy simple: place a DC in California close to the arriving port and the West Coast distribution riddle is solved.

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Five Signs Your Business Needs a Fulfillment Partner

Ware2Go

It is also much more cost-effective to leverage an outsourced partner than to invest in your own warehouse. With Ware2Go’s warehousing options and scalable network, they were able to place inventory much closer to their customer bases and meet 2-day shipping guarantees.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 29 – June 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon is installing “meditation booths” in warehouses. While the strategy has been discussed for nearly a year, Instacart has yet to begin testing it. cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. How Best Buy is rethinking the role of its store employees.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot. Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot ,” meant to move large carts throughout its warehouses. One, called Cardinal, is a robotic arm that can lift and move packages weighing up to 50 pounds, which Amazon hopes to deploy in warehouses next year.